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# מַטְבֵּחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4293

**slaughtering-place** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

slaughtering-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַטְבֵּחַ: slaughtering-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] slaughtering-place (Ph. מטבח id. CISi.175), Is 14:21, for Babylonians (under implicit fig. of animals).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a place of slaughter (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.21/#tree)

הָכִ֧ינוּ לְבָנָ֛יו מַטְבֵּ֖חַ בַּעֲוֺ֣ן אֲבוֹתָ֑ם בַּל־יָקֻ֙מוּ֙ וְיָ֣רְשׁוּ אָ֔רֶץ וּמָלְא֥וּ פְנֵֽי־תֵבֵ֖ל עָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* prepare for sons his a.place.of.slaughter in the.iniquity their.ancestors their not they.will.arise and they.will.take.possession.of \[the\].earth and they.will.fill the.surface of.\[the\].world cities

*JPS 1917:* Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4293.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4293/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).